Tag Archives: Valve

Nvidia’s portable console, Shield, has been struggling ever since it’s launch, but a couple of games might change the way gamers perceive it. The company received a while back the go ahead from Valve to port Half-Life 2 AND the original Portal to it’s handheld device, and today every Shield user can buy the games and play them no matter ...

Valve has released the Compendium for the most important Dota 2 event of the year, The International 2014. The Compendium is an interactive digital book that allows players to keep track of teams and matches. The item costs $10 and adds $2.5 to The International 2014 prize pool with each purchase made. As of this writing, the total prize pool ...

Tech website PC Perspective received a very surprising gift today that teases Half-Life 2 for the Nvidia Shield. The gift comes in the form of a bright green crowbar with the message “What would Gordon do?” engraved on it. A picture was immediately taken and posted on Twitter in order to share the good news. The crowbar was sent by ...

It seems that this is not Valve’s couple of days. Only a bit over 24 hours have passed since Valve was forced to remove a game from Steam for deceitful marketing, and now another issue has arisen: the well-publicized in-alpha game Towns has lost its development backing. Back at the end of 2012, just before the Early Access program launched, ...

Three weeks after the launch of the Early Access for Earth: Year 2066, Valve has taken it down. The news comes after an avalanche of complaints from clients who bought the game. The description of the game promised a survival game not too different from other titles on Steam like DayZ or Rust, but in reality it was nothing like ...

Dota 2 is currently one of the most popular games around, even more popular than the legendary World of Warcraft if we are to look at the numbers. A user on Reddit noticed that the ‘ unique players in last month ‘ counter found on the official Dota 2 blog now shows over 7.86 million. By comparison, Blizzard’s MMO only has ...

It’s been months since we last saw a major Dota 2 patch released by Valve, but it looks like the wait is almost over. The Spring Cleaning update comes with lots of bug fixes, interface and inventory changes, and a ton of gameplay balance. A lengthy changelog was posted a few days ago on the official blog in preparation for ...

Valve announced one week ago that the biggest Dota 2 event of the year will be held at the Key Arena in Seattle and will take place between July 18th and the 21st. The 10.000 tickets that were put on sale for the championship were already gone within an hour. The news comes directly from Valve’s Vice President of Marketing, ...

It seems Amazon’s plans to get heavily involved in the gaming industry are finally taking shape and are coming to fruition. Some leaked pictures show that Amazon has a gaming controller  ready for an upcoming Amazon game console. In truth, Amazon’s console is more likely to be a set-top box combined with a gaming console, that can be used both ...

It sees major changes keep going on at the top of the food-chain at Microsoft. According to an update on his LinkedIn profile, Jason Holtman, the Head of PC Gaming and Entertainment Strategy at Microsoft has left the Windows and Xbox creating company at the end of January 2014. Jason Holtman has signed up with Microsoft in August 2013, with ...